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Mourners embrace as the casket of Kasandra Perkins is loaded into a waiting hearse outside of Ridgeview Family Fellowship Church following a funeral service, Thursday, Dec. 6, 2012, in Blue Ridge, Texas. Perkins was shot and killed last Saturday by her boyfriend Jovan Belcher, a Kansas City Chiefs football player. AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez) Photo by